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From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [expert] A very Good VGA Card- Recomend ? - Continued....
> What occured to me doing this: How do people with Linux only
> machines update BIOS'es? The whole process is DOS based and if you happen
> to don't have any DOS around you are pi... bad off.
Isn't DR-DOS free? I know there is a free DOS somewhere out there.
How about dosemu? It comes with freedos, or something like that I think.
Shouldn't that work?
I know the frustration you are talking about though. I needed to run the
DOS-baed config program for my SMC 1650 NIC installed in a Linux-only box. I
could have moved the NIC to my dual boot machine, but I placed the DOS
system files on the SMC utility disk and made it bootable. Without DOS,
though it would have been awkward to physically move the card, but what if I
only had the one machine?
As long as I am here, does anyone know of a HOWTO that addresses an ftp
install of Linux over a LAN? I have a box with a NIC and no CD-ROM drive. I
would like to do the install from a CD-ROM drive on another machine on the
LAN. Is there another way to do this? I tried to follow the prompts after I
inserted the supplemental disk, but got nowhere.
Hoyt
